Former Prelate of the Methodist Church and one time
President of the Christian Association of Nigeria CAND, Prelate Sunday Mbang,
has said that the wrath of God will visit the children and grand children of
corrupt politicians who steal from the treasury just to benefit themselves and
their families. The clergy man who recently turned 80 years old, said this in a
recent interview with Tribune.
“In Christianity, the Bible makes it clear that when you
commit a crime, it is to the third and fourth generations. The belief with us is
that they have allowed the grace of God in the New Testament to seem to have
covered what is in the Old Testament – the wrath and love of God – which is
also reflected in the New Testament. If you don’t repent of your sin, the wrath
of God will fall upon you. People suffer in this country and what they would do
is to explain it scientifically. I said it earlier that I made a prayer and
someone died.
That death would be explained scientifically and so the main
point would be clear to the people. The fact is that once you commit sin; once
you loot public treasury; once you convert money belonging to the people for
yourself and family, you will suffer, your children will suffer to the third
and fourth generations. When these things happen, people explain them
scientifically.
Nowadays if anything happens to someone, it would be blamed
on either the brother, father or the mother, not knowing that God’s wrath might
have fallen on the person. Every sin has punishment.
What I can tell our politicians is that all the sins they have committed – corruption, hatred, killings, kidnapping, false accusations – the wrath of the God will visit them one after the other to the third and fourth generations. My prayer is that all those seeking political appointments, because the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, God is the owner of the earth. He is not an absentee landlord. He is interested in this world. So when you come and do whatever you feel like, don’t think God does not see it. He sees everything we do and He gives us the grace for what we have done right and punishment, for our wrongs.
What I can tell our politicians is that all the sins they have committed – corruption, hatred, killings, kidnapping, false accusations – the wrath of the God will visit them one after the other to the third and fourth generations. My prayer is that all those seeking political appointments, because the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, God is the owner of the earth. He is not an absentee landlord. He is interested in this world. So when you come and do whatever you feel like, don’t think God does not see it. He sees everything we do and He gives us the grace for what we have done right and punishment, for our wrongs.
My advice to the politicians is for them to remember that
whatsoever they sow, they shall reap. If they escape it, their children will
not. If they do, their grandchildren will bear the punishment, whether they
like it or not. You can go to prayer houses to pray, unless you repent. When
Zacchaeus, the tax collector in the Bible wanted to repent, he said he would
return ten times all that he had taken unlawfully. Can any politician do that?
If they can do so, God can show mercy because some of them might have
ignorantly stolen. Even if Buhari decides to leave them unpunished, they can’t
escape from God.
That is my advice to all the Christians who venture into
politics. God is watching them and their family every day. Every sin they
commit against that person who has gotten food to eat in his house, God will
not allow them to go scot-free” he said.
Source: Nigerian Tribune
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